Opening Comment
"I am really proud and pleased with our team. It is great to come up here in a great environment. Coming up here to play is really special. The fans and the people are so respectful. I wish it was like this everywhere in the country because the people here are just appreciative of the work that their young college guys are doing and their coaches. They are always respectful towards you, win or lose. I appreciate that. I know it doesn't happen everywhere and maybe I shouldn't be saying it, but I appreciate it. It is fun to compete in environments like this and complements to Coach Callahan, his staff and team. It was a really well-played, hard-fought game and fortunately we made enough plays to win it."
On the significance of the win
"It really does (have a significance) for us. Everybody will label it whatever they want because it just depends on how you want to spin it, but for us it is big. The kids are excited in the locker room. We haven't won up here in almost 20 years. And not a lot of people do win here so for us it is exciting and it just shows again that we are improving and making strides. Our guys our learning from it and from all the situations and we are growing for it. This can help boost us for the last stretch of the season."
On the way they won the game after giving up a big lead
"In hind site, even a week ago, these kind of games do build you a lot. They teach your players to keep cool in these situations, keep competing and make your plays when you have the opportunity. You always want to win big but you can really grow from these situations in a lot of ways that players can hold onto for years."
On their decision to take the wind on the coin toss
"I just felt warming up that it was a big factor. I felt that away from home with the crowd into it, I didn't want to get behind early. I felt the wind was going to be a big plus. We went in knowing that if they deferred we were going to take the wind and defend. And if we won the toss, we were going to take the wind. So I wanted to ensure that we had it and play it to our advantage and use it and help us away from home. Fortunately it did really help us so much in the first half so luckily it worked out that way."
On having Adrian Peterson back
"It was great to have him back. Everyone talks about how talented he is and to me he is just so tough and competitive when he plays and when he runs. To have him out there, I think everyone feeds off him too. The other players see it and he just has a tough, hard-nosed presence to him. He was big. And Kejuan (Jones) was big. He had some nice runs as well. Unfortunately, Jacob Gutierrez got hurt early on one of the kickoffs. I don't want to run him on kickoffs either but I think everyone understands with all the people we are missing that he has to be on the kickoffs."
On Oklahoma's defense stopping Nebraska
"I was really pleased. In the first half I thought we were excellent. In the second half they did a better job than us and into the wind I was really disappointed we didn't do better. But then when we had to at the end, we got a lot of pressure. I don't know how many sacks we had but I felt like we had a lot of good pressure. They covered well for the most part. They threw it quite a few times and sometimes you're going to get something, but for the most part we did pretty decent."
On the fake field goal
"I actually had it on earlier on the one they (Nebraska) blocked. I was really furious that he didn't run it then because I felt he would have walked in. To me, that helped them block it because I think there was a little confusion between the two up front. They did a nice job pushing but there was a little bit of confusion because we were supposed to run it then. I just felt that the way they were rushing they were not regarding any fake whatsoever. So I felt that if they were going to rush that way we were going to take advantage of it."